The Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic desires to live in peace with all peoples and to direct all its forces toward internal construction, in order to restore production, transport, and public administration on the basis of the Soviet system, which has thus far been hindered by the intervention of the Entente and the hunger blockade.

The Worker-Peasant Government has repeatedly proposed peace to the Powers of the Entente, namely: on August 5, 1918—an appeal by the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs to the American representative Mr. Poole; on October 24, 1918—to President Wilson; on November 3, 1918—to all governments of the Entente through representatives of neutral countries; on November 7, 1918—in the name of the Sixth All-Russian Congress of Soviets{124}; on December 23, 1918—a note by Litvinov in Stockholm to all representatives of the Entente; then appeals on January 12 and January 17, a note to the governments of the Entente on February 4, 1919; a draft treaty worked out with Bullitt on March 12, 1919; a declaration on May 7, 1919 through Nansen.

First page of the manuscript of V. I. Lenin "Draft Resolution on the Question of International Policy." December 2, 1919. (Reduced in size)

Fully approving all these repeated steps of the Council of People's Commissars and the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, the Seventh Congress of Soviets once again confirms its unwavering aspiration toward peace, once again proposes to all Powers of the Entente—to England, France, the United States of America, Italy, Japan, both collectively and severally—to begin peace negotiations immediately, and entrusts the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, the Council of People's Commissars, and the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs with the systematic continuation of this policy of peace (or: to systematically continue this policy of peace, undertaking all measures necessary for its success).